A Marxist, he proved to be an influence both on Foucault and a number of other students, encouraging them to join the French Communist Party ( Parti communiste français-PCF ), which Foucault duly did in 1950.

Presumably the French expected him to disappear, but he duly presented himself at the prison in Toulouse and was incarcerated.

Fox returned to Eton later that year, " attired in red-heeled shoes and Paris cut-velvet, adorned with a pigeon-wing hair style tinted with blue powder, and a newly acquired French accent ", and was duly flogged by Dr. Barnard, the headmaster.

Independently of the method used to signify Royal Assent, it is the responsibility of the Clerk of the Parliaments, once it has been duly notified to both Houses, not only to endorse the Act in the name of the Sovereign with the formal Norman French formula, but to certify that Assent has been granted.

On the same day Freitag, fearful of the French build-up to his front, sent two detachments to seize Arneke, which was duly stormed, though a British colonel was taken prisoner.

These French had escaped from German prison camps and were duly taken on board for passage to the United Kingdom.

Imaz duly capitulated and the French took possession of the fortress on 11 March.

He also qualified well for the French Grand Prix but crashed with the Renault of Heikki Kovalainen on the opening lap, and duly retired because of the damage.

The fortifications at Leith, Inchkeith and Dunbar Castle were duly removed, and the French garrisons left Scotland.

Further French attacks took place, at one point, the Foot Guards distinguished themselves greatly when they poured a devastating fire into the French ranks, though the Guards advanced after the fleeing French and in doing so became the target of a French artillery battery and French infantry who duly ripped into the Guards, causing hundreds of casualties.

The 3rd Guards were then sent to repulse the French from the orchard which they duly did, driving the French back into the woods once more.

When this led instead to the French Revolution, the milice was duly abolished by the National Assembly.

Lorenzo duly accepted, as it was a great honor to be tied to the French royal family, especially since he was merely a commoner, albeit an extremely wealthy one.

The French fleet, consisting of between twelve and fourteen ships of the line, six frigates and a schooner duly put to sea at 9: 30 am on the morning of 5 November.

The epitaph written by the French Academy at the time the subject was first brought up and approved by William Pitt, was duly inscribed.

As news spread of the Allies ’ triumph, the Prussians, Hessians and Hanoverian contingents, long delayed by their respective rulers, eagerly joined the pursuit of the broken French and Bavarian forces.

Hume reinforced his crew with musket-armed soldiers and joined up with HMS Seaford to track the two ships, to no avail, though they discerned that the two ships had sunk a French vessel off St Christopher Island, and reported also that they had last been seen " gone down the North side of Hispaniola ".

On 19 August, Nelson sailed for Naples with Vanguard, Culloden and Alexander, leaving Hood in command of Zealous, Goliath, Swiftsure and the recently joined frigates to watch over French activities at Alexandria.

During the German occupation of France he joined the Maquis ( FTP ), a part of the French Resistance.

The British, French and Dutch joined in the slave trade in subsequent centuries.

Cassatt had befriended Degas and Pissarro years earlier when she joined Pissarro's newly formed French Impressionist group and gave up opportunities to exhibit in the United States.

In the 1560 ` s English pirates joined the French in regularly raiding Spanish shipping in the Americas.

So large numbers of Dutch traders / pirates joined their English and French brethren on the Spanish main.

An attempt was therefore made to send more troops from Tientsin, where British ships had been joined by French, German, Russian, Austrian, Italian and Japanese.

After the collapse of the First Empire in 1815, the French public lost the rights and privileges earned since the Revolution, but they remembered the participatory politics that characterized the period, with one historian commenting: " Thousands of men and even many women gained firsthand experience in the political arena: they talked, read, and listened in new ways ; they voted ; they joined new organizations ; and they marched for their political goals.

In 1573, he joined Guillaume Le Testu, a French buccaneer, in an attack on a richly laden mule train.

Reflecting the divided loyalties of the time, part of the Foreign Legion joined the Free French movement while another part served the Vichy government.

A French journalist under the pen name Olivier Vermont wrote in his book La Face cachée de Greenpeace (" The Hidden Face of Greenpeace ") that he had joined Greenpeace France and had worked there as a secretary.

So large numbers of Dutch traders / pirates joined their English and French brethren trading on the remote coasts of Hispaniola.

French buccaneers established a settlement on the island of Tortuga in 1625, and were soon joined by like minded English and Dutch privateers and pirates, who formed a lawless international community that survived by preying on Spanish ships and hunting wild cattle.

Spain, allied to France by the Family Compact, and the Dutch Republic also joined the war on the French side.

Although the Coalition was joined by other allies, the French Empire was also not alone since it now had a complex network of allies and submitted states.

The Second French Empire joined the war on the Italian side, which was concluded by an Austrian defeat at Solferino.

Many civilians sought refuge by taking to the roads of France: some 2 million refugees from Belgium and Holland were joined by between 8 and 10 million French civilians, representing a quarter of the French population, all heading south and west.

Eventually, several important French ships such as the Richelieu and the Surcouf joined the Free French Forces.

On the Eastern Front the USSR was lacking pilots and several French pilots joined the Soviet Union and fought the Luftwaffe in the Normandie-Niemen squadron.

In 1990 France, led by François Mitterrand, joined the short lived Gulf War against Iraq, the French participation to this war would be called the Opération Daguet.

French troops joined the 1999 NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

* 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim – English and Imperial forces are victorious over French and Bavarian troops.

In 1796 the Duke of Zweibrücken, Maximilian Joseph, the future Bavarian king Max I. Joseph, was exiled to Ansbach after Zweibrücken had been taken by the French.

This had two aims: firstly to put pressure on the Elector to fight or come to terms before Tallard arrived with reinforcements ; and secondly, to ruin Bavaria as a base from which the French and Bavarian armies could attack Vienna, or pursue the Duke into Franconia if, at some stage, he had to withdraw northwards.

The French and Bavarian commanders eventually agreed on a plan and decided to attack Eugene's smaller force.

" Signal guns were fired to bring in the foraging parties and picquets as the French and Bavarian troops tried to draw into battle-order to face the unexpected threat.

On the right of these French and Bavarian positions, between Oberglauheim and Blenheim, Tallard deployed 64 French and Walloon squadrons ( 16 drawn from Marsin ) supported by nine French battalions standing near the Höchstädt road.

In the open country between Taviers and Ramillies, he placed 82 squadrons under General de Guiscard supported by several interleaved brigades of French, Swiss and Bavarian infantry.

The 20 French and Bavarian battalions in Ramillies, supported by Irish dragoons and a small brigade of Cologne and Bavarian Guards under the Marquis de Maffei, put up a determined defence, initially driving back the attackers with severe losses.

But these French horsemen were amongst the best in Louis XIV ’ s army – the Maison du Roi, supported by four elite squadrons of Bavarian Cuirassiers.

The Allied commander ordered his cavalry forward against the now heavily outnumbered French and Bavarian horsemen.

Stuck in the mass of fugitives fleeing the battlefield, the French and Bavarian commanders narrowly escaped capture by General Cornelius Wood who, unaware of their identity, had to content himself with the seizure of two Bavarian Lieutenant-Generals.

His ancestry included English, Irish, French, Dutch, and German ( Bavarian ).

After Napoleon's Hundred Days following his escape from Elba, Landau, which had remained French, was granted to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 and became the capital of one of the thirteen Bezirksämter ( counties ) of the Bavarian Rheinpfalz. In 1840 famous political cartoonist Thomas Nast was born in Landau.

* 1779 – War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war.

The elder Nast's socialist political convictions put him at odds with the Bavarian government, and in 1846 he left Landau, enlisting first on a French man-of-war and subsequently on an American ship.

French leaders entertained grand designs, intending to use a combined French and Bavarian army to capture the Austrian capital the next year.

* April 9 – Tiroleans rise under the command of Andreas Hofer against French and Bavarian occupation.

* May 13 – War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war.

While the French hailed the invasion as the first step towards the Rhineland and later Berlin, General Le Bœuf and Napoleon III were receiving alarming reports from foreign news sources of Prussian and Bavarian armies massing to the southeast in addition to the forces to the north and northeast.